2025 Volume 97 Issue 1 Pages 55-60
The objective of this study is to elucidate the features of the agricultural land lease market in the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region by focusing on social relations and geographical characteristics for farmland transactions. The empirical analysis of the data obtained through the intensive farm management survey for 100 households that curentlly utilize both pastoral and arable land has led to the following results. The arable land lease market is underpinned by social ties based on kinship. However, pastoral land leasing is likely motivated by the efficient use of land through its intensification and consolidation and is not related to social ties. In fact, the contribution of the agricultural land lease market to the intensification and consolidation of farmland was confirmed by a comparison of the Gini coefficients of acreage for institutionally allocated and currently managed farmlands as well as by a GIS-based mapping visualization of the central location of both types of households’ farmlands.
